The History of the Maritime Wars of the Turks. Chapters I. to IV.
TRANSLATED FROM
THE TURKISH OF HAJI KHALIFEH BY JAMES MITCHELL.
CHAPTERS I. TO IV.
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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE GEORGE JOHN EARL SPENCER, K.G. F.R.S. M.R.A.S. &c. &c. &c. THIS TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE MARITIME WARS OF THE TURKS IS, WITH HIS LORDSHIP’S PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS LORDSHIP’S GRATEFUL AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE TRANSLATOR.
The work of which the following pages contain a translation was some time since recommended to the notice of the Oriental Translation Committee, by the venerable nobleman to whom this performance is inscribed, as being calculated to throw considerable light on the naval history of the Turkish nation.
This work was the second which issued from the imperial printing-office, established at Constantinople in the year 1726, under the superintendence of Syed Effendi and Ibrahim Effendi; the latter a Hungarian, who had embraced the Mohammedan faith, and on whom the more immediate direction of the establishment seems to have devolved. The types, which were cast by him at Constantinople, are very neat, and the execution of the whole, considering that printing in Turkey was then only in its infancy, is highly creditable to the ingenuity of Ibrahim. Unfortunately, however, it abounds in typographical errors, which have frequently occasioned the translator considerable difficulty. In addition to a list of upwards of two hundred errata appended to the work, he has detected as many more, which were not corrected in a second impression which was subsequently printed.
The volume is a small folio, consisting of 149 pages, exclusive of the table of contents, the list of errata, and the printers dedication, and is accompanied by five neatly executed plates, the first of which represents the two terrestrial hemispheres; the second, the Mediterranean and Black Seas; the third, the islands subject to the Ottoman empire; the fourth, the Adriatic; and the fifth, two mariners compasses, one having the names of the winds in Turkish, the other both in Turkish and Arabic.
Kâtip Çelebi
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TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
EXPLANATION OF THE GLOBE.
EXPLANATION OF THE MAP.
THE VENETIAN ISLANDS ON THE COAST OF THE MOREA.
THE TOWNS ON THE ARNAOUT SHORES.
THE HERSEK AND BOSNIA SHORES.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CHRISTIAN TOWNS.
VENICE.
THE ITALIAN, FRENCH, AND SPANISH COASTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE EXPEDITION TO ENOS.
THE EXPEDITION TO AMASSERO, SINOPE, AND TREBISOND.
THE EXPEDITION TO METYLINI.
THE EXPEDITION TO THE NEGROPONT.
THE EXPEDITION TO KAFA AND AZAK.
THE EXPEDITION TO PUGLIA.
THE EXPEDITION TO MOTA.
THE FORTIFYING OF BOOSJA.
THE EXPEDITION TO RHODES.
THE EXPEDITION TO AVLONA.
THE EXPEDITION TO LEPANTO.
THE EXPEDITION TO MOTONE AND CORONE.
THE EXPEDITION TO MITYLENE.
PREPARATION OF A FLEET FOR RHODES.
THE EXPEDITION TO RHODES.
THE EXPEDITION OF SALMAN REIS.
THE EXPEDITION OF KEMAN-KESH.
CHAPTER II.
THE ENGAGEMENTS OF ORUJ AND KHAIR-AD-DIN.
THE ENGAGEMENTS OF KHAIR-AD-DIN.
THE EXPEDITION TO BEJAIA AND THE CAPTURE OF SHARSHAL.
DEPARTURE OF ORUJ REIS TO ALGIERS.
ATTACK OF THE FRENCH UPON TUNIS.
DEFEAT OF THE INFIDEL FLEET AND THE ARAB TRIBES AT ALGIERS.
THE CAPTURE OF TUNIS.
THE CAPTURE OF TILMISAN.
ATTACK OF THE INFIDELS UPON ALGIERS.
THE CAPTURE OF TUNIS.
EXECUTION OF THE INFIDEL CHIEFS AT ALGIERS.
THE GOVERNMENT OF KHAIR-AD-DIN BEG AT ALGIERS.
INSURRECTION OF THE PEOPLE OF TUNIS AND TILMISAN.
THE CAPTURE OF MUSTAGHANIM.
THE SECOND CAPTURE OF TILMISAN.
REBELLION OF KAZI-ZADEH.
DEPARTURE OF KHAIR-AD-DIN BEG TO JIJELI.
OPERATIONS OF KHAIR-AD-DIN AT JIJELI.
THE DEFEAT OF KAZI-ZADEH.
RETURN OF KHAIR-AD-DIN BEG TO ALGIERS.
THE ENGAGEMENT WITH ABDULLAH.
THE WARS OF AIDIN REIS.
APPEARANCE OF ANDREA DORIA, AND ATTACK OF KHAIR-AD-DIN.
THE FLIGHT OF ANDREA.
ATTACK OF ANDREA DORIA UPON CORONE, AND REBELLION OF THE GOVERNOR OF TILMISÁN.
STATE OF THE MUDAGILS OF SPAIN.
THE STRATAGEMS OF ANDREA AND OF KHAIR-AD-DIN.
EXECUTION OF THE INFIDEL CHIEFS.
DEPARTURE OF KHAIR-AD-DIN FOR THE CAPITAL.
ARRIVAL OF KHAIR-AD-DIN AT THE SUBLIME PORTE.
KHAIR-AD-DIN GOES TO ALEPPO.
CHAPTER III.
THE FIRST EXPEDITION OF KHAIR-AD-DIN PASHA.
KHAIR-AD-DIN’S EXPEDITION AGAINST TUNIS, AND THE ATTACK OF THE INFIDELS UPON THAT CITY.
KHAIR-AD-DIN’S RETURN TO ALGIERS.
CAUSE OF THE COWARDICE OF THE INFIDELS.
RETURN OF KHAIR-AD-DIN TO THE PORTE.
THE EXPEDITION TO PUGLIA.
SULTAN SOLEIMAN’S EXPEDITION TO CORFU.
ACCOUNT OF THE TREACHERY OF THE VENETIANS.
SIEGE OF CORFU.
ATTACK OF KHAIR-AD-DIN UPON THE VENETIAN ISLANDS.
THE CAPUDAN PASHA’S PRESENT TO THE SULTAN.
THIRD EXPEDITION OF KHAIR-AD-DIN PASHA.
THE GRAND BATTLE OF KHAIR-AD-DIN PASHA.
THE NUMBER OF THE INFIDELS’ SHIPS.
ATTACK AND FLIGHT OF THE INFIDELS.
CAPTURE OF CASTEL NOVO BY THE INFIDELS.
EXPEDITION OF SOLEIMAN PASHA TO INDIA.
EXPEDITION OF KHAIR-AD-DIN TO CASTEL NOVO.
FRANCE CRAVES ASSISTANCE OF THE PORTE.
DEATH OF KHAIR-AD-DIN PASHA.
CHAPTER IV.
THE EXPEDITIONS OF MOHAMMED PASHA.
THE CAPTURE OF TRIPOLI BY SENAN PASHA.
EXPEDITION OF PIRI REIS TO THE EASTERN OCEAN.
SECOND EXPEDITION OF PIRI PASHA TO THE EASTERN OCEAN.
EXPEDITION OF MURAD PASHA TO INDIA.
ACCOUNT OF SEIDI ALI, CAPUDAN.
EXPEDITION OF SEIDI ALI TO THE EASTERN OCEAN.
THE ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SEIDI ALI AND THE PORTUGUESE.
SECOND EXPEDITION OF SEIDI ALI, AGAINST THE CAPUDAN OF GOA.
THE RESULT OF SEIDI ALI’S EXPEDITION TO THE INDIAN OCEAN.
ACCOUNT OF A WHIRLPOOL.
THE EXPEDITION OF SENAN PASHA.
THE APPEARANCE OF TORGHUDJEH BEG.
THE OCCURRENCE AT JARBA.
CAPTURE OF INFIDEL VESSELS.
THE VISIT OF TORGHUDJEH TO MOGHREB, AND THE INVITATION TO HIM FROM THE EMPEROR.
THE EXPEDITION OF TORGHUDJEH TO BASTIA.
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